Mark Bousquet

16 teams would be ideal.

Power 4 schools get 8 automatic bids: 1 for each conference championship game participant, which ends the handwringing over whether the games actually mean anything.

Then the next 2 highest ranked conference champs.

Then the next 6 highest ranked teams.

The best thing about today's College Football Playoff rankings is that the committee is going to be torched no matter what they do - needing to fit Miami, Notre Dame, and Alabama into 2 spots will result in an internet meltdown.

posters for the mean one, santa's slay, mickey's christmas carol, and the great american baking show celebrity holiday

My #LastFourWatched for #LetterboxdFriday include British people sitting in judgment of American celebrities, my favorite animated Dickens, an evil Santa, and an evil Gr-FINCH!

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Great W for Syracuse tonight. This is a young team and they’ll be inconsistent this year but you can see Coach Autry has things moving in the right direction.

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Syracuse hoops and poor free throw shooting … a tale as old as time.

Protect the Arts. Nourish the Artists.

Drake Maye might lead the league in 30+ yard handoffs. So impressive how this dude keeps dropping deep balls in buckets.

Pretty sure Drake Maye leads the league in 30+ yard handoffs. There aren't many who can drop it in a bucket like Maye.

Giants are terrible, but they're feisty, at least. Good test for the Pats tonight.

And those Patriots red throwbacks are among the best NFL throwbacks. I wish they'd either go back to them or rebrand. Time for Elvis to go.

I know it won't make Ole Miss fans any happier if Kiffin bolts, but I love Oxford, Mississippi.

Syracuse going to OT with the #3 team in the country tonight is a very good sign this basketball team is finally headed in the right direction after far too many years being sub-mediocre.

Also, they should never not wear these jerseys.

a painting of the sun shining through trees in a forest Alt: Ewok faces in the trees

Here are the only Star Wars Rankings that matter:

1. Your favorite
2. Your 2nd favorite
3. Your 3rd favorite
4. Your 4th favorite
5. Your fifth favorite.
...
Last. Your least favorite

Don't let anyone else convince of what's good Star Wars or bad Star Wars.

Posters for He Dood It Again, Zombeavers, You're Next, and The Man with X-Ray Eyes.

A day late for #LetterboxdFriday, but my #LastFourWatched include finishing up my A to Z horror marathon and a Mighty/Super Mouse short.

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A ★★½ review of Ticks (1993) A totally solid and enjoyable '90s nature runs amok horror film in which a bunch of troubled teens go into the woods, fight mutated ticks, and they all survive. Jokes. They kill the black kid. And his dog. His fucking dog. Keanu Reeves watches his dog get killed and burns the world to the ground with bullets. Alfonso Ribeiro watches his dog get killed and he ... gets infested with mutated ticks, gets shot by some white shitbirds, gets mauled by more ticks, and gets split in half as a giant tick ruptures his body from the inside out. JFC.

Horror Movie A to Z Marathon for 2025

T is for TICKS

A ★★★★ review of The Scooby-Doo Project (1999) I had no idea this existed before a few days ago, but it's really well done. At least as a Scooby satire; I still have never seen any of the Blair Witch things. Minus a half star for the cheap Scrappy...

Horror Movie A to Z Marathon for 2025

S is for THE SCOOBY-DOO PROJECT

Great Odin's missing eye this is absolute horseshit writing.

That's a great road win for Purdue against a very good Alabama team.

A ★★★★ review of Ring (1998) A highly effective slow burn horror film that is more interested in the tension felt by the characters than it is in scaring the audience at home. The film depends on its visuals to provide the creepy...

Horror Movie A to Z Marathon for 2025

R is for RING
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A ★★★★★ review of Q (1982) I don't know how you can make an early '80s B-movie pulp film any better than this. Great idea, fantastic cast, and all of it taking place inside a grandiose city with a dirty underbelly. So much of t...

Horror Movie A to Z Marathon for 2025

Q is for Q

My A to Z Horror Marathon rolls on and my complete Donald Duck watch is just about at the end, as well.

This week: duck vs. chipmunks on the water, a horror where the bad guys are being hunted, a decent public domain cash-in, and an early '80s pulp masterpiece: 🦆👻💪🐉

A collection of books: Mystery of the Stuttering Parrot, secret of the Old Mill, devil in a blue dress, low action, ghost station, nobody lives forever, the grey wolf, the appeal, and airframe.

Book Reads for September and October 2025. A really enjoyable 2 months of reading. 📚💙 #booksky

A ★★ review of Popeye the Slayer Man (2025) I knew that I wanted to watch at least one of these Public Domain cash-ins during my horror marathon and, as far as expectations for these things go, POPEYE THE SLAYER MAN was pretty good. I mean, it'...

Horror Movie A to Z Marathon for 2025

P is for POPEYE THE SLAYER MAN

A ★★★★ review of Oddity (2024) Oh yeah, this is how to do a nice moody horror. A couple nice scares, but really, this works because of the way director Damian McCarthy blends story and tension. Has the feel of an old-timey MR James...

Horror Movie A to Z Marathon for 2025

O is for ODDITY

Godzilla image by Art Adams

Happy Godzilla Day to those who celebrate!

Ugh. Gutted for Toronto.

Great World Series, though.

The 9th inning!

Game-tying HR from just about the last guy you'd expect.

Bases loaded, 1 out, and no runs in despite a razor-thin play at the plate and then an outfield collision on a deep fly ball.

What a brilliant World Series this has been!

Tied in Toronto!

Not even thru 4 and Game 7 has been spicy.

Bichette can't score on the single, so next time up he drills one out of the park.

2 run saving catches from Varsho and Vladi.

Giménez tries to lean his hand into a pitch, then gets all salty when he gets drilled on the next pitch.

Drama!

Beautiful work!

A ★★★★ review of The Night Stalker (1972) Pretty sure in 2025 we have more people who believe in vampires than newspapers, but this THE NIGHT STALKER is good, pulpy fun. Features a tight script from Richard Matheson and a fantastic performanc...

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N is for THE NIGHT STALKER